skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't work. Moderation has it's name precisely because suppressing content that is crated to incite emotional reactions keeps the mood in a community. All free-speech platforms I know of devolve into a hotbed of Neonazis and trolls. As a consequence, I am no longer interested in trying out "censorship resistant" platforms because I precisely know what will happen a couple months down the road.

Social media without meaningful moderation (ie. FB and Twitter before the latest crackdown) was an error.
They will never stop. It's the EU salami tactics, they proceed "slice by slice" until you realize it and then it's usually too late. I wish they would devote so much time to actual problems and make EU again a big leader (e.g. look at the speed we are getting vaccines now).
There's another HN thread about what questions to ask to evaluate an employer. I think on-call related questions are the most valuable/telling.
I might be misunderstanding you, but it seems that you feel the author tried to sneak in a brag, by telling us he owns a i3. Not to be disparaging i3, but it's not here bragging car. It goes for 11,5k USD in Norway.
How does a low share price "destroy the company"?
seconded. overall great content on this channel.
Why do we have them in the physical world? So people can gather and speak and protest without approval of corporate overlords.

Never thought its gonna get to a point where i have to explain individual liberty in the west
Fortunately there's a practical way to do properly responsive layouts that will work in any browser even from before 1996: HTML tables.
Yes, I am aware of Velben goods (as well as Giffen goods): if you go into my comment history you'll see I actually mentioned them just in the last week.

> You didn't break economics with your "why are luxury goods so expensive even though they're not better" argument, unfortunately.

I do not see (a) where my claims imply breaking any economics principles, and (b) did not claim they're not better. As someone with an engineering degree I was taught all about trade-offs in design. Different situations may call for a need for different characteristics of a design: one person's situation may call for VW (simple commuting) while another's a Porsche (dealing with a mid-life crisis).

My point was that different items, which have different prices, have different value to different people. So to say what something is "worth" can be completely arbitrary, independent of price. Similarly, various people can find the same item "worth" differently, depending on what they value, so each is will to pay a different price: this is what auctions are all about after all.

In the case of GME: the people who actually care about the retail company may value it one way, and thus are willing to pay a particular price for each stock; while the people who care about fulfilling their (shorting) option contracts may have a different value and are wilting to pay a different price. What each stock is "worth" is different to each of them.
It really is amazing to me that anyone thinks it's reasonable policy to ban end-to-end encryption. For the sake of national security, I would want to strengthen the security of digital data, not weaken it.
It's free and seems to be experimental, so I don't see an issue.
Jane Street: the top Wall Street firm ‘no one’s heard of’
What do you think is the difference between 'research results in CompSci not even ten years old' and 'academic pseudo science publications'?

Do you just disagree with the research of the last ten years for some reason so dismiss it as not the real research and think there's some kind of under-appreciated research out there?
I'm completely ok with this. Now let's forget that it ever existed.

ducks
I think it's naive to assume trolls wouldn't invest much time
Derisk projects by the Risk Reduction Rate, not absolute risk
Short lines can't be read in one glance, they are too short to be meaningful, so when you see it in one glance, you get no information from it. The worst case is when the line stops in the middle of a word, now you can't even see individual words in one glance.
You tell the managers that you will spend no time at all on figuring out the system because you are just that good. Of course, you will still need to spend some time on it. Hopefully nobody will look into it too closely, but even if they do, you can claim that that time was already part of the "fixing the problem" phase.

Most managers will not look into the matter too closely, because if they find no wrongdoing then it was wasted time and if they do find it then they have to spend even more time to find a new freelancer. (And possibly take a reputational hit for hiring the wrong person in the first place)
This is a pattern that I have seen quite regularly in recent times, mostly via Next.js, I think:

<link rel=preload href=FOO.js as=script>
<script async src=FOO.js></script>

That is, a preload, followed immediately by using it (rather than using it much later in the document, as was the original intent of preload links).

(On this submission, servers.json receives this treatment. While talking of servers.json, two things are odd about it: although served as JSON, it’s actually JavaScript, and a random cache busting parameter is added to its query string, rather than the server just instructing the client not to cache it.)

I cannot imagine any way in which this makes sense: the preload line should be 100% superfluous (and thus mildly counterproductive). Is there some utterly bizarre reason why this does actually help things, or is it just simple cargo culting of a corrupted idea as I presume?
Knuth writes eloquently what I have thought for a while. Some of these early works and ideas, even and perhaps especially those that did not evolve into something successful today, are worthy of study. I strongly suspect some of them could take us in new directions. Some of those that “blocked” may now be unblocked by related developments in our field.
Maybe we have to go back to forwards.

https://blog.eutopian.io/the-next-big-thing-go-back-to-the-f...
Are you in the US? I work in finance. We absolutely have on-call rotations and at least read-only PRD access (usually some limited write capability).
Before all these electronic gadgets it was pretty absolute. Just go to some remote place with noone around and talk.
That’s not the full text. The full text is locked behind a paywall.
What I like most about this is that the site didn't fall over from the HN hug of death.

I assume it must be their massively scalable Kubernetes + NoSQL DB + CDN infrastructure.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25849800

The major players of the industry have DRM keys, and browser competition is hindered by only allowing access to DRM protected contents to some other vetted major players.

Nasty situation. But I guess it makes sense from the POV of the entities that want to protect their contents with DRM (if DRM was opensource... its use wouldn't make much sense)
Beating Back Cancel Culture: A Case Study from the Field of AI
Interesting.

I think it's a valid point/pursuit but somewhat sisyphean. Technical is harder to follow. That means fewer people will read it, even people who do have the skill to. Publishing is a medium, not entirely unlike HN or pop science books and has a media dynamic. I think history of X tends to go "accessible" in every field, with the counterexamples (eg mathematics) being exceptions. A HN article with lots of code is harder to read, digest and comment than an article about the business/societal implications of facebook's new policy on squirrels. Even people who do read the former, can read more of the latter more easily... so they do.

Also, generalities tend to be more evocative than specifics. If there is a message to the "story" about small teams, outsiders, or other cultural element... that's engaging. Technical is necessarily specific, and a lot of actual invention is somewhat random... without a wider implication.

I'm skeptical that "history of X" fields can really focus on what he wants them to focus on. The types of insights that he's looking for are, as he says himself, best found in primary sources. There will always be a limited supply of these, since people who write books and people who invent things overlap irregularly.

On the positive side, since he seems to mostly want inspiration, a little can go a long way.

Totally tangential... Military historians used to play a lot of "tactics," trying to recreate battles with board game pieces or whatnot. There are endless generations of such commentary on Roman vs Etruscan spear formations. The evolution of helmets or whatnot. I don't think we learn much from this.
Maths means you can't deal with this. Sorry. You only get two choices:

1. Secure legal communication that no-one can break.
2. A ban on strong non-backdoored encryption, where the backdoor keys will be misused and leaked to criminals. Meanwhile, criminals can just keep using secure illegal communication that no-one can break.

Maths means that you don't get to choose a position in-between these two choices.
Theres quite a few crypto pump and dump groups they should remove IMO , they're all scams
Is it still owned by atlassian?
Digikey doesn't sell memristors
They ought to sell t-shirts, I’d buy one.
This is old news. She was deported on Thursday (21/01/2021).
"Banks lend deposits" it's just another way to say that the causality is:

"banks have reserves" -> "banks lend the reserves that they have"

instead of:

"banks lend when make business sense" -> "then they search for reserves"

If a bank can do the second option, it doesn't make sense to say that a bank is lending deposits. In fact, saying that is mudding the issue.

There is an empirical way to know: going to a credit department in a bank, ask the person in charge if they know how much they can lend or only in what conditions they can lend. I have heard from several sources that it's the second.

Here is an interesting paper about the issue:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S105752191...
Yes you did and you are doing it again.

Claiming bitcoin is a problem polluter as it is useless, no utility, no function. A thing people waste energy on without getting anything back.

Now you claim btc is useless since there are 'better' ways.

Well public transport is better way to move people around cities. So why cars and causing huge traffic jams?

Why buy lambo when Fiat will save you more money etc etc.

Also saying 'btc is waste of energy it does nothing but pollute', and 'it might be useful in future' is contradictory. You either want to kill it or develop it.
The OpenAI GPT-3 API access policy talks about how you grant them the right to use anything you feed the API to improve it, so I assume they're doing some kind of continuous retraining
The answer should be consent and the recognition that everyone is the highest authority over their own body. I may choose to deffer to an expert on decisions about myself but no amount of expertise or potential benefit to others will convince me to do something against another person without their consent. There need to be a deontological veto to any consequentialist analysis when the proposed action is coercive.
I think this is interesting. Burn-out is real - I remember when Ben stepped away from boltdb. I guess he's learned his lessons and isn't as interested in contributions being part of his vision for his SQLite sync tool.

I'd be interested to see if this gets normalised beyond the SQLite community.

One of the things I did recently and haven't regretted is turning off email notifications on GitHub.
>> VW will have to deal with the cannibalization of their own business

Great point. Tesla revenue will grow substantially, VW et al will maintain sales, except for the portion of their sales lost to Tesla. Also, it's a major capital investment for VW that they otherwise wouldn't have to make.

This is one of several reasons why it's not meaningful to compare their stock prices.
they sold it in 2018.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/29/atlassian-sells-jitsi-an-o...
What Is Zwift Steering Like?
Will there be a flutter sdk?
A more extreme example- they may not allow this now

working in education at a nonprofit you quickly learn that warranty support on the acer / Sony is not worth a ton unless your time is free.

You are working with folks reading scripts designed to waste your time.

Meanwhile you can take 5 machines to apple store and walk out w new ones - or if out of warranty pay not unreasonable prices to get them fixed
the icing is the aol email!
They must be targeting people who just want to use this for internal purposes, rather than developers who want to integrate Jitsi with an existing product.
Launch HN: IMG Force – Image hosting platform and API
If you look around, tons of communities have been getting banned/quarantined/etc. recently. It began years ago with literal hate groups like FPH or coontown on reddit, pedos on 8chan, later came pickup artists and incels, TheDonald, Chapo Trap House, then Apple, Amazon and Google banning Parler, YouTube and Twitter restricting Trump, and now, finally, even WSB. In isolation, every one of them is a drop in the bucket. But overall it's definitely enough to matter. If this continues, at some point everyone but the most boring will feel the banhammer somewhere. And the most boring aren't the ones producing content (aka generating all of the value).
Unless you work on trivial codebases you never stop learning. The code changes faster than you can keep up. It's a constant overhead for everything you do.
Ask HN: Did internal bureaucracy became worse during Covid-19 outbreak?
Since we turned all remote, I've seen a repetition of meetings with different people to discuss the same things. I see it as a form of bureaucracy enabled by the visibility of all calendars and the wish for anyone to intervene everywhere.

What's your experience? How do you deal with it?
Xorg should have expired a long time ago.
> Why should capital gains be taxed at a different rate than earned income?

Thats a very good question, perhaps we should be lowering the earned income tax rate instead. Of course the reason capital gains are taxed lower is complicated and political but one reason is that when people invest in capital then it multiplies the effect of labor so we want to encourage capital investment and so it gets a discount.

> If $50 bn is too small amount of money for the government to care, why do people spend so much time discussing the $0.26 bn that goes to Title X family planning?

Its too small to fund expenditures for any length of time. Of course whether much smaller amounts of money (yet still significant) should be spent on something else entirely is of course a valid discussion as I’m sure you understand.

> I am very unsure what you're talking about here.

Its well known that European countries have demographics that are treated as undesireable second-class citizens and have less access to public services. The Travellers are a prominent example.

> Bottom line: socialized medicine provably does not refuse care to people who are not deemed "worth it".

I’m certain that there is some process of determining whether a patient’s live is worth saving according to quality of life and assorted other metrics. You can’t expect me to believe that they will simply offer any treatment whatsover to any person no matter how unlikely it is to work.

> Exactly - you countered your own point here. Which is why the government should subsidise this cost, as it is a net positive for society

I don’t agree that its a net positive for society.

> Businesses won't care about the environment, workers rights, and other externalities by themselves, because the short-term ROI for them is negative.

This reveals a misunderstanding of business, as they are structured around long-term roi.
Ask HN: Is there a live metric about climate change?
I'm wondering if we can approach climate change with a data-driven approach. The requirement for that would be a metric/KPI one can watch on a dashboard. Does anyone know if something like this already exists?
Can anyone point out the difference between this policy and the previous one?
This is simply not true. Conversations on private premises have never been legitimate targets of surveillance, and it's not generally* been illegal to encode or encrypt mail or other private papers or communications. Mandatory back doors are an entirely novel and highly intrusive encroachment on civil liberties.

Edited from "has never been"
Vandana Shiva on why the food we eat matters
The Limitation isn’t really the bots but Reddit’s garbage api

It’s quite restricted so you need to do all sorts of hacky stuff to get live info out of it.
Making things work on crappy browsers is definitely important. But that doesn't always mean "simple HTML", and it definitely doesn't mean avoiding react or jQuery or whatever HN framework hipsters are complaining about this week - if anything, those popular, "bloated" frameworks are more likely to have been tested on these obscure browsers and have whatever workarounds you didn't think of. It might not even mean following "web standards"; frankly I've found writing HTML3 with no CSS, table layouts, and maybe even the occasional <EMBED> works a lot better on these old browsers than flexbox, semantic tags, or whatever the overengineers are trying to push these days.

The bottom line is right; rather than posturing, test your site - actually test it - on one of these browsers.
Lets apply this idea further: google maps could refuse to probide navigation to strip club, water company could cut off water supply if they think you are having a swinger party, and electric company could threaten to cut you off if you install solar panels.

Do you want to live like that?
Glamorous Toolkit (https://gtoolkit.com) by feenk, which embodies the thesis of this blog post, is in my opinion the most exciting working development environment in decades. I think in 5-10 years people will be pointing to it as having a huge impact on the industry.

I implore anyone serious about changing how software development works to digest Andrei Chis' thesis Moldable Tools: http://scg.unibe.ch/archive/phd/chis-phd.pdf

Once you understand the consequences of reducing the cost of specialised tool development by orders of magnitude, it becomes obvious that a qualitative change in experience follows, that brings us much closer to what people like Engelbart were searching for.
Centralized services are not going to provide 100% reliable end-to-end encryption,
they're vulnerable 'single-point-of-failure' that can be pressured/hacked/etc to disclose their users data.
No. I meant for a normal SPA or CRUD app without video.
> I'm not convinced that this semi-open licensing approach is a benefit to anyone.

It may be better than fully closed source? Just that it should be self-described as proprietary, with source available.
>> No system can say yes to every desired treatment, in every context, at any price. All systems have to tell somebody no: Either providers cannot charge what they want, or patients cannot have what they want, or taxes are going to be much higher than anyone wants.

https://www.vox.com/2020/1/28/21074386/health-care-rationing...
Lawsuit claims Apple facilitates, benefits from illegal gambling on App Store
I tried to run a Jitsi server. It's a madness full of Docker impossible things to run and a very long and confusing configuration file.

I wonder why can't these things be provided as binaries with a simple set of settings.

Now they offer Jitsi as a service for free up to 25 users? That's great though. It should cover 99% of normal people use cases, so no one will use meet.jit.si anymore.
Hi saghul, thanks for dropping by.

We’re currently running self-hosted Jitsi Meet in production and have been very happy with performance - particularly stability. We would however be interested in switching to JaaS as we’d like to get away from managing our own infra and just host a landing page through, e.g., NextJS on Vercel, with a JaaS iFrame.

The landing page mentions deep customisation but when clicking through to the documentation I see only custom branding, etc., through the developer web console. We have some customisations on the front-end (custom kick messages, auto-enabling lobbies, etc). Is it possible to make these sorts of customisations to JaaS? It seems like an iFrame is the recommended integration so would be great to get a sense if any of these things are possible. Could you speak generally to the degree of customisation possible outside of the developer web console?

Thanks in advance.
No. They have a similar offering of their own. We also run our infra on AWS so they are getting business from us already.
I tried the game but it says "Connecting, disable VPNs or proxies if this takes too long". Is the game down?
Success often comes down to execution of the play. If your building something it's about quality. If your making a bet, then it's about risks.

This fund has/had bad risk managers.
The Poorest People Are Getting Richer Faster Than Anyone Else
> We're going to see more fragmentation

Whenever people say this, I wonder whether they are considering the possibility that once the internet goes in the direction of fragmentation, more states would swoop in with regulation to barricade their own internet in the same way that China has a great firewall. There are plenty of incentives into banning US-based tech companies--states would then have access to data about their citizens instead of being at the mercy of Facebook or the US, and local software companies would begin to thrive.
Palantir Technologies and Rio Tinto Sign Multi-Year Enterprise Partnership
> Domain names should be a thin wrapper around private/public keypairs.

This way anyone who gets access to the keys, even temporarily gets to take over the whole domain. No chance to resolve the issue with a registrar who can manually review the case and revert changes. This would include anyone working on that level of infra in your company and anyone who hacks them.

I'm not sure what would you compare the https cert to without a central authority in that case.

We tried the web or trust with PGP and it turns out key management is really hard and apart from few geeks nobody's that interested.
Then what are you trying to compare? The pricing includes all video traffic relaying, which is the non-trivial part of these types of setups.
I know for a fact that it happens. Certainly they would stop it if they knew about it, but they don’t police this stuff like you might think. They rely on their users to self-report for the most part. [1]

“ On April 23, 2020 at 1:55 p.m., the Marysville Police received a tip that child pornography had been uploaded while using a discord online service.”

There are groups like this all over the place. I know who this person is.

“A discord online service” is Discord.

Also kind of interesting in writing here you can see some local papers are just way out of touch with the tech community.

[1] https://www.unioncountydailydigital.com/articles/child-porno...
Don't get me wrong; I don't hate mosquitoes. I grew up with a wetland in my back yard, and got bitten enough during my wilderness survival merit badge course that I no longer swell or itch when I get bitten.

However, my understanding is that there are no species that feed exclusively or even mostly on human-biting mosquitoes. I've been told the environmental impact of human-biting mosquitoes going extinct would be minor, though, dramatically reducing human morbidity and mortality in some poorer countries would have indirect environmental impact.
Who is the mall?
What if the mall suddenly decides that xyz religion, race is not allowed? Who controls the mall?
so is majority views the only correct view?
Thanks for the article! I think we used some of your resources when implementing the networking for https://curvefever.pro

I think the end-result is really good, almost no client-side input delay.